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Fred Heiding

@fredheiding.bsky.social
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Computer security @ Harvard

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Fred Heiding @fredheiding.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Our latest study shows that Al voice models perform on par with human scammers in voice-phishing attacks, at a fraction of the cost. We ran a large-scale human-subject study (n=4,100) using six leading AI voice models. They achieved up to 36% compliance. Full paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2607.09970
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 11/03/2026
“AI infrastructure is being built faster than it can be protected,” write @fredheiding.bsky.social and Chris Inglis. To win the AI race, Washington must act quickly to “build credible defenses for chips, wires, and humans.”
foreignaffairs.com
America’s Endangered AI
How weak cyberdefenses threaten U.S. tech dominance.
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European News @eunews.social · 13/04/2026
With Orban's defeat, the French far right loses a key ally Hungary's election outcome strips the Rassemblement National of a vital partner in its ideological war against the European Commission.
lemonde.fr
With Orban's defeat, the French far right loses a key ally
Hungary's election outcome strips the Rassemblement National of a vital partner in its ideological war against the European Commission.
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Fred Heiding @fredheiding.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Senator Josh Hawley sent an open letter to Dario Amodei this week, citing my work on how to best counter AI-powered scams: www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cach... Anthropic takes security seriously, but securing AI systems is difficult
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Simon Lermen @simonlermen.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Our paper on AI-powered spear phishing, co-authored with @fredheiding.bsky.social , has been accepted at the ICML 2025 Workshop on Reliable and Responsible Foundation Models! openreview.net/pdf?id=f0uFp...
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 05/05/2025
The consequences of artificial intelligence supercharging deceptive content online will extend beyond cyberspace to exacerbate real world challenges. Alex O'Neill and @fredheiding.bsky.social look at how AI is contributing to a rise in social engineering attacks and what governments can do about it.
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AI-Enhanced Social Engineering Will Reshape the Cyber Threat Landscape
The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools enables bad actors to conduct deceptive attacks more cheaply, quickly, and effectively.
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Simon Lermen @simonlermen.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I published a human study with @fredheiding.bsky.social We use AI agents built from GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet to search the web for available information on a target and use this for highly personalized phishing messages. achieved click-through rates above 50% www.lesswrong.com/posts/GCHyDK...
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Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns — LessWrong
TL;DR: We ran a human subject study on whether language models can successfully spear-phish people. We use AI agents built from GPT-4o and Claude 3.5…
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Fred Heiding @fredheiding.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"AI Jesus will listen, but can't absolve your sins"
theconversation.com
AI Jesus might ‘listen’ to your confession, but it can’t absolve your sins − a scholar of Catholicism explains
In the future, a program like AI Jesus could be used to hear confessions around the clock. But with no experience of having a human body, it cannot engage or absolve human sins.
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